This book offers a clear, concise guide for anyone involved in developing applications, evaluating products, designing systems, managing databases, or engineering products. It provides an understanding of the internals of transaction processing systems, describing how they work and how best to use them. It includes the architecture of application servers, transactional communications paradigms, and mechanisms for recovering from transaction and system failures.
The use of transaction processing systems has changed in the years since publication of the first edition. Electronic commerce has become a major focus for business data processing investments, from banking and stock purchase on the web, to eBay auctions, to corporate database management. New standards, new technology and products, and new languages allow web services, REST/HTTP, and SOA to become leading styles of design for enterprise applications. With the help of this book and its rich examples, you will be able to develop, integrate, deploy and manage state-of-the-art transaction processing applications.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Transaction Processing Abstractions
Chapter 3 Transaction Processing Application Architecture
Chapter 4 Queued Transaction Processing
Chapter 5 Business Process Management
Chapter 6 Locking
Chapter 7 System Recovery
Chapter 8 Two-Phase Commit
Chapter 9 Replication
Chapter 10 Transactional Middleware Products and Standards
Chapter 11 Future Trends
Glossary of Acronyms
Bibliographic Notes
Bibliography
Index